Obama Inauguration Speech 2013 - Most Liberal Ever? More Of The Same?

Barack Obama, who won a second term by defeating Republican Mitt Romney after a bitter campaign, will now face many of the same problems that dogged his first four years: persistently high unemployment, crushing government debt and a deep partisan divide. The war in Afghanistan, which Obama is winding down, has dragged on for over a decade. He won an end-of-year fiscal battle against Republicans, whose poll numbers have continued to sag, and appears to have gotten them to back down, at least temporarily, from resisting an increase in the national debt ceiling. And Obama faces a less-dire outlook than he did when he took office in 2009 at the height of a deep US recession and world economic crisis. The economy is growing again, though slowly. But he still faces a daunting array of challenges. Among them is a fierce gun-control debate inspired by a school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, last month, a tragedy he invoked in his speech. He said America must not rest until "all our children, from the streets of Detroit to the hills of Appalachia to the quiet lanes of Newtown, know that they are cared for, and cherished, and always safe from harm." Obama's appeals for bipartisan cooperation will remind many Americans of his own failure to meet a key promise when he came to power - to act as a transformational leader who would fix a dysfunctional Washington. His speech was light on foreign policy, with no mention of the West's nuclear standoff with Iran, the civil war in Syria <b>...</b>
Author: SweetDreamsForever31
Duration: 5:27



Photos for video
Obama Inauguration Speech 2013 - Most Liberal Ever? More Of The Same?